http://www.geocities.com/streakingobject/
Yeah, it’s a geocities site, but I’ve seen this echoed other places before. It’s a pretty weird thing; in NYC on 9/11, a bizarre “streaking object” in flight was caught by almost every camera, from many angles, as the second plane impacted the tower.
Has anyone encountered this before? Heard it reasonable debunked? Any guesses?
I may be really gullible, but that is fascinating. Surely it is a hoax or we would have heard about it before. Wouldn’t we?
Any more info? I can’t get into the site, it’s used up all its bandwidth.
If the streaking object that you reference is the one that I remember, IIRC it was hypothesized to be one of the second airplane’s engines still running after it impacted the building. The second plane hit at an angle and I believe the right engine didn’t have a lot of building to go through and may have continued to fly out the other side.
Hmm.
I recall participating in a board war over this at [another website that shall remain nameless]. The consensus (at least on the side of the argument that I was on) was that this “streaking object” was probably a bird that flew somewhere between the camera and the towers – obviously much closer to the camera. I get the impression of flapping wings in the frames they show, although that could be just me.
As to why it doesn’t show up until after it passes the building, since the camera was focused on the tower, it is very possible that the object was obscured by the smoke until it flew past.
I don’t know about the whole “many cameras, many angles” thing. I’ve only heard of the one. Page two of the site that Brutus linked to shows a different video, but to me that one looks even more like a bird.
My two yen…
I downloaded the mpeg from here. The black object doesn’t come from either tower. It first shows up in front of the smoke at the very top of the screen, a little to the left of where a line running along the left side of the left tower would intersect the top of the screen. It also clips the top right corner of the left tower. Probably just a bird.
I can’t find any videos that show this right now, but I distinctly remember that there was a very obvious “projectile” that shot out a long way from the building after impact, but I always saw it as a piece of the plane that went straight through.
I don’t think this is the same one, though, as it is not leaving a trail of smoke, which the projectile I remember did.
You can faintly see the trail of smoke left by the projectile I mean, at the right of this image: http://www.jimlikens.com/wtc_explosion.JPG (heading off the right side of the pic).
No, no. Sillies. It’s a UFO. I thought everyone knew that. Sheesh.
Don’t know if you were trying to be facetious, but you do know that “UFO” means “Unidentified Flying Object”, right? Which aspect of UFO do you dispute in this case?
Right. I never disputed the “UFO-ness” of the object. The flying object. That no one can identify. In fact, I chastised the group for not seeing it for what it was (a “UFO”). So by saying, “It’s a UFO” I’m making a truthful statement. But it’s funny because usually when people say “It’s a UFO”, they mean “It’s an alien spacecraft!”, which most of us think is diddly-bunk. So I’m making a double-jokey-thing, see…because it is a “UFO” but not a “UFO” in the Independence day sense of the word, just an ordinary object that is unidentified. And flying. See?
The object was only captured on one of the many cameras pointed at the towers at the time. Careful viewing of the film shows that the object passed between the towers and the camera (it’s hard to see with smoke in the background, but it’s there). And it’s out of focus, meaning close to the camera in this case.
The most likely conclusion is that it’s a bird, although it could also be a piece of windblown or thrown debris.
